Monday, May 21, 2007

As started before, the good Doktor is a large man, who appears to have consumed enough Guinness to result in a large belly hanging over his loose jeans, which are held up by suspenders. A belt would not do the job, only squeeze them down. He has receding grey hair that sticks up in a stiff crew cut.

During the break, he's behind the court reporter, helping her correct technical terms in the official transcript.

BRUNET: Welcome back.

[more]

BARNETT: exhibit numbers?

[ YOUNG and BARNETT will take any opportunity to interrupt the flow ]

q: on this slide, why did you circle these points.a: if you can look at the same time time. sometimes sometimes the mass spec 2/1 trace is not good enough to rely on exclusively. If you have a peak with similar composition as background, you need other data. Similarly, the 44 trace is the same; you need all the data.

YOUNG: slide?

SUH GDC 1313, p 147 148

[ Landis is awake, with eyes wide open ]

Q: 44/45 trace cited by brenna is the reason we shouldn't have co-elution. Does this paper show that isn't enough?a: the previous slide shows the chormatogram has peaks, but nothing in the 2/1 trace.

At about 32 minutes into the testimony, Barnett essentially asked for a chain of custody when one of Landis' attorneys went to get copies and Barnett asked to know for information as to their content. Important for his business, but not important for a lab?

I keep hearing how Floyd's team is really good, and that they are tearing up the witnesses, but today they look horrible. I am not a lawyer, but if I went to my boss without page numbers on my documents, he would kick me out of his office. Floyd's team is making 1st year law school mistakes here, and using up a ton of time by searching for page #'s during the direct.

Then you are not following the good Dr. comments about the baseline subtraction eating away at the peak and skewing the numbers. The wandering baseline is a huge issue. The GC is very important for the IRMS. and the GC from LNDD is bad so is their IRMS.

I hear in the back ground a fat lady finishing her warm up ! She will now start singing bye bye mr American pie .This public hearing is unavailable om line . Its killing the public opinion . Will , you threw more cow pie in the face of Floyd than usada did over the last 10 months ! I hope you burn in hell . Its starting to look like maybe the third place guy from last year will be in yellow in July . the whole sport is crumbling in front of our very eyes .

Ignore the trolls. They pose opinion as fact and play on emotion rather than reason. They thrive on overreaction. Tapping out their hate, while accusing others of being "evil". They have nobody in their lives willing to pay attention to them so they come here to spout unfounded absolutes [i.e., "Floyd has been proven guilty!"] and not-too-subtle hypocrisy ["Will is an evil creep and I hope he burns in hell" (I mean, wow.)].It's important to learn to spot the trolls early and simply scroll down.

Total Poindexter Website Prize: to the fabulous geniuses over at trustbutverify, who not only are perhaps the most impassioned defenders of Floyd Landis' virtue beyond only the boy himself, but actually seem to understand the detailed scientific arguments they put out that the rest of us (well, me) are too stupid to even coherently summarize. Floyd, you better be innocent, or you owe these folks a *major* freakin' apology! (racejunkie)

"Who does awards for blogs? I sense a nomination is in order." (Carlton Reid, of BikeBiz)

"Hands-down champion of full-and I mean full-coverage of this hearing is the blog Trust But Verify. You'll have to have excellent background knowledge of the issues, and wade through page after page of detail to get to anything interesting, but it's raw and unfiltered and all there. The guy who runs the site, a cycling fan from Northern California, began casually providing a clearinghouse for Landis case news nearly 10 months ago, and now he has the haunted look of a man whose life has been hijacked and wants it back. (Loren Mooney, co-author of Positively False, at Bicycling)

"if you want the latest news on the Floyd Landis case, Trust but Verify is the go-to site. The author is biased in favor of Floyd (so am I) but the reporting is neutral and comprehensive." (12string musings)

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